New chip will let an iPod store 500,000 songs — A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information — Mobile phones, iPods and other consumer devices may soon be able to hold a hundred times more information …

Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight — Boy this Windows collapsing under its own weight argument has some legs. — A few points about this Gartner presentation two days ago, which has raised quite a ruckus on Techmeme. The analysts argued Wednesday morning that Windows …

Apple's OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft — A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market — The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of computing is finally weakening—pried loose with just two fingers.

Vista's UAC security prompt was designed to annoy you — User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren't particularly zippy, given the screen redraw).

Google Launching ToDo List Product? — TechCrunch reader Nicolas Hoizey noticed a blog post on the official Google Docs Blog today written by Andrew Cheng, a Google Marketing Manager. Hoizey sent us the NetNewsWire screen shot above (click for large view). — The post, based on the screen shot, appears to be a simple to do list.

Crawling through HTML forms — Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we've started experimenting with recently.

The Top 10 Made Up Words of Web 3.0 — You won't find these in Wikipedia. But someone had to write them down. Inspired by Web jargon and making their first appearence on Twitter, I give you the Top 10 made up words of Web 3.0: — 1. Socialstainable — The act of socially conscious …

Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web — We all know by now that if you could vote on the Internet, Barack Obama would already be president. His Website has always attracted more traffic than those of other candidates. Unaffiliated video-endorsement site YouBama popped up spontaneously to collect video endorsements from supporters.